Hitchhiking waiting times across the whole world

👍 To improve the following maps for the whole hitchhiking community you are able to track your own hitchhiking experience with spots and waiting times on Hitchmap. We encourage you to share your experience especially in the the uncolored areas as we do not have enough data points at this moment to reliably estimate waiting times in those regions.

Go out and hitchhike to color the whole world in green.

map('world')

map('europe')

map('north_america')

map('south_america')

map('asia')

map('australia')

map('africa')

from utils_imports import *

Some background information

To build those maps we used the data provided and collected by Hitchmap users since 2005 (most extensively from 2010 to 2016). Currently we are using the dump from 04/11/2024.

We build a machine learning model to predict how long one would wait in each region. From the known spots we assumed that they give us some information about region close around them as well as regions a little further away from them. With this we aknowledge that hitchhiking waiting times are mainly influenced by culture and certain irregularities in the road network. To learn more about the model we applied and how we determined the uncertain (grayed out) areas read this blog post.

High resolution versions of the currently available maps from above can be found here.

To build your own maps and models you can take a look at our GitHub repository.

If you are excited about the Hitchmap and miss certain functionalities you can check out their GitHub repository.